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French 1864-1930

Ferdinand du Puigadeau was born in 1864 in Nantes. He studied without a master, traveling instead to Rome, Venice and Florence early in his life. He came back to France in 1888 to travel then to Pont-Aven, where he encountered Paul Gauguin.

He later journeyed to Africa, Germany and Switzerland, and obtained a scholarship to visit Sweden. He returned again to Bretagne, where he stayed and worked for the next 30 years. It was there that he came to k (showing 500 of 5385 characters).

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